# PRiSM: Enhancing Low-Resource Document-Level Relation Extraction with Relation-Aware Score Calibration

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13869 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.13869/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 22 of its 32 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 25 Sep 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 22 of 22)

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- [RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.11692/) (2019)
- [On Calibration of Modern Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.04599/) (2017)
- [Measuring Calibration in Deep Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.01685/) (2019)
- [Matching the Blanks: Distributional Similarity for Relation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.03158/) (2019)
- [DocRED: A Large-Scale Document-Level Relation Extraction Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.06127/) (2019)
- [Simple BERT Models for Relation Extraction and Semantic Role Labeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.05255/) (2019)
- [Document-Level Relation Extraction with Adaptive Thresholding and Localized Context Pooling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.11304/) (2020)
- [Coreferential Reasoning Learning for Language Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.06870/) (2020)
- [Document-level Relation Extraction as Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.03618/) (2021)
- [Entity Structure Within and Throughout: Modeling Mention Dependencies for Document-Level Relation Extraction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.10249/) (2021)
- [Revisiting DocRED -- Addressing the False Negative Problem in Relation Extraction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.12696/) (2022)
- [Document-Level N-ary Relation Extraction with Multiscale Representation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.02347/) (2019)
- [Fine-tune Bert for DocRED with Two-step Process](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.11898/) (2019)
- [Document-Level Relation Extraction with Adaptive Focal Loss and Knowledge Distillation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.10900/) (2022)
- [DWIE: an entity-centric dataset for multi-task document-level information extraction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.12626/) (2020)
- [Eider: Empowering Document-level Relation Extraction with Efficient Evidence Extraction and Inference-stage Fusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.08657/) (2021)
- [Class-Distribution-Aware Calibration for Long-Tailed Visual Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.05263/) (2021)
- [MapRE: An Effective Semantic Mapping Approach for Low-resource Relation Extraction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.04108/) (2021)
- [Better Few-Shot Relation Extraction with Label Prompt Dropout](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.13733/) (2022)
- [Improving Long Tailed Document-Level Relation Extraction via Easy Relation Augmentation and Contrastive Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.10511/) (2022)
- [Continual Contrastive Finetuning Improves Low-Resource Relation Extraction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.10823/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [GEGA: Graph Convolutional Networks and Evidence Retrieval Guided Attention for Enhanced Document-level Relation Extraction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.21384/) (2024)
- [DOREMI: Optimizing Long Tail Predictions in Document-Level Relation Extraction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.11190/) (2026)
- [DistilledGemma: Balanced Efficiency-Accuracy for Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Articles](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.29130/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) aims to extract relations of all entity pairs in a document. A key challenge in DocRE is the cost of annotating such data which requires intensive human effort. Thus, we investigate the case of DocRE in a low-resource setting, and we find that existing models trained on low data overestimate the NA ("no relation") label, causing limited performance. In this work, we approach the problem from a calibration perspective and propose PRiSM, which learns to adapt logits based on relation semantic information. We evaluate our method on three DocRE datasets and demonstrate that integrating existing models with PRiSM improves performance by as much as 26.38 F1 score, while the calibration error drops as much as 36 times when trained with about 3% of data. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/brightjade/PRiSM.
